What is Eel sauce? It's not Eel...

EEL SAUCE (NITSUME) If your friends have been eating sushi for a while now and have fallen in love with the black sushi sauce, then surprise them by telling them you’ve made a homemade version of it! Read everything on this sauce on my blog: https://www.bitemybun.com/knowledgebase/nitsume/ If you like Japanese food, you should get our free recipe quick guide, it's the ultimate EASY quick guide with our favorite recipes: https://www.bitemybun.com/free-japanese-cookbook/ The Japanese call it nitsume and it is often used to blast or drizzle on grilled eel and other fish toppings on sushi. The eel sauce has a sweet and salty flavor that goes well with most sushi dishes. If you want to make eel sauce at home, then you will need to prepare these ingredients: 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/2 cup mirin (Japanese sweet wine) 1/2 cup white sugar Get a saucepan and place it on the stove, mix all ingredients as you bring them to a boil and simmer until the liquid mixture is reduced to 3/4th from its original volume measured from the brim of the saucepan. Once the sauce cools down, transfer it to a clean glass jar and refrigerate.